GOODS & SERVICES: New Ideas, Sep. 8, 1958

Walking through a patch of woods
one day in 1948, a Swiss named Georges de Mestral wondered what made
burrs stick to his clothes, took some home to find out why. De Mestral
not only found out the burrs' secret; he duplicated it with a nylon
fastener that seems fair to make major changes in the U.S. garment
industry.

The nonmetallic, zipperlike fastener is called Velcro, consists of two
strips of fabric, one with thousands of tiny nylon hooks, the other
with thousands of equally tiny nylon loops. When the strips are pressed
together, hooks catch loops and hold...